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well, they argued that the rosa boren export contract was in our national security interests. in other words, they want us to believe that we're promoting united states security by doing business with the russian arms dealer that is helping an anti-american terror sponsoring dictatorship commit mass atrocities. unbelievable. last year, the pentagon agreed to audit the contract with rosa boren export and make other good-faith efforts to find other procurement sources for the afghan military. now they are refusing to complete that audit on the grounds that rosa boren exports simply have refused to cooperate. meanwhile, my office has learned that army officials within the nonstandard rotary wing aviation division whose primary focus is the mi-17 program are the subjects of an ongoing criminal investigation. this obviously raises troubling questions about whether the terms of a new mi-17 term procurement contract resulted from criminal misconduct. i want to take this opportunity to say once again that american taxpayers should not be indirectly subsidizing the murder of syrian civ
well, they argued that the rosa boren export contract was in our national security interests. in other words, they want us to believe that we're promoting united states security by doing business with the russian arms dealer that is helping an anti-american terror sponsoring dictatorship commit mass atrocities. unbelievable. last year, the pentagon agreed to audit the contract with rosa boren export and make other good-faith efforts to find other procurement sources for the afghan military. now...
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that's marguerite rosa explaining this problem in a report by the center for american progress. she goes on to say, "in baltimore, for example, when teachers at wog school in a high-poverty neighborhood were paid an average of $37,618, at another school in the same district the average teacher's salary was $57,000. assuming the same number of schoolteachers in each school, , the difference in dollars is $387,640 in each school." that's a lot of money per school. so under federal formula, that's considered -- quote -- "comparable" or fair so that the poor school is essentially stuck with newer, less expert teachers. this is a system designed for the bureaucracy and the adults, inot the students. now, a different report by the fordham foundation, which i would call a center-right foundation, came to a similar conclusion and it summed up its findings by saying, "all of these problems have a common root: today money doesn't follow children to the schools they attend according to their needs. instead, money flows on the basis of factors that have little to do with the needs of studen
that's marguerite rosa explaining this problem in a report by the center for american progress. she goes on to say, "in baltimore, for example, when teachers at wog school in a high-poverty neighborhood were paid an average of $37,618, at another school in the same district the average teacher's salary was $57,000. assuming the same number of schoolteachers in each school, , the difference in dollars is $387,640 in each school." that's a lot of money per school. so under federal...
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i would mention congressman george miller, congresswoman row is a del -- rosa delaura. people on the outside. judy lickman in 1993 was head of the legal women's defense fund. she and her colleague played critical rules in getting the fmla written, introduced and across the finish line. i want to mention those heroes who worked so hard for this important bill. but there's still more work to do, mr. president, to insure that families are fully able to see their family responsibilities as well as maintain economic security. today workers are ineligible to take fmla for a variety of reasons. some workers do not have enough tenure with their current employer, even if they have been in the workforce for years. you see, the fmla requires a year of service. but in today's economy, workers more frequently change jobs. and, of course, family emergencies happen without warning. other workers are not able to accumulate the required 1,250 hours of work at a single employer in the preceding year. with the growth in part-time work, both by choice and by necessity, more workers may be
i would mention congressman george miller, congresswoman row is a del -- rosa delaura. people on the outside. judy lickman in 1993 was head of the legal women's defense fund. she and her colleague played critical rules in getting the fmla written, introduced and across the finish line. i want to mention those heroes who worked so hard for this important bill. but there's still more work to do, mr. president, to insure that families are fully able to see their family responsibilities as well as...
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our next witness is professor rosa brooks at georgetown university law center. in addition to teaching law professors brooks is a senior fellow at new america foundation and weekly columnist on national security issues for foreign policy magazine the previously professor brooks served as counselor to the undersecretary of defense for policy where she founded the defense department office for rule of law and international humanitarian policy. she is a graduate of harvard university, oxford university where she was a marshal scholar at yale law school. professor brooks, the floor is yours. >> thank you, senator. i submitted 20 pages of written testimony much like c-span, people don't usually refer to what law professors write as riff vesting i will condense the 20 pages into five minutes and focus almost exclusively on the broader rule of law issues i believe are raced not by drones as such but u.s. targeted killing policy. in the context of the traditional battlefield i think as we know and already said drones do not present any new legal or rule of law issues. i
our next witness is professor rosa brooks at georgetown university law center. in addition to teaching law professors brooks is a senior fellow at new america foundation and weekly columnist on national security issues for foreign policy magazine the previously professor brooks served as counselor to the undersecretary of defense for policy where she founded the defense department office for rule of law and international humanitarian policy. she is a graduate of harvard university, oxford...
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with leader reid an hour or two ago, and we sat at a beautiful ceremony where a statue was unveiled of rosa parks, and one of the speakers talked about, in kind of a humble and pedestrian setting, she just had a decision to make. and the decision was do we just kind of go along? do i just kind of do what's always been done? i just kind of keep drifting into a situation that i know is unjust and unequal; or do i decide to do something different? we are drifting toward something that is very bad, something that members of congress believe strongly when the bill was first put in place should not happen and would harm people and would harm our economy. and that's the moment we are in right now, a moment to make a decision. and the decision is do we allow ourselves to drift in a way that hurts people or do we choose a balanced approach that will help people, that will strengthen the economy, that will strengthen our budget, that will strengthen our ability to create jobs and it will strengthen the reputation of this body. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. mr. warner: mr. president? th
with leader reid an hour or two ago, and we sat at a beautiful ceremony where a statue was unveiled of rosa parks, and one of the speakers talked about, in kind of a humble and pedestrian setting, she just had a decision to make. and the decision was do we just kind of go along? do i just kind of do what's always been done? i just kind of keep drifting into a situation that i know is unjust and unequal; or do i decide to do something different? we are drifting toward something that is very bad,...
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president, on the same day we're going to be honoring civil rights icon rosa parks by unveiling a statute in the u.s. capitol, the first full statue of an african-american to stand in the halls of congress, across the street, the supreme court will be hearing arguments from those challenging the constitutionality, the voting rights act reauthorization named in part for rosa parks. an act both republicans and democrats came together after extensive days and days and days and weeks and weeks of hearings and signed into law by a republican president. in the pending case, the challengers of the supreme court seek to strike down section 5 of the voting rights act, even though that critical section is protecting the constitutional guarantees against discrimination and voting where 100 years of prior civil rights laws have failed. now, the supreme court got it right four years ago when they upheld the constitutional authority of congress to reauthorize section 5 against a similar challenge. neither the words of the constitution nor the importance of these critical provisions protecting the right
president, on the same day we're going to be honoring civil rights icon rosa parks by unveiling a statute in the u.s. capitol, the first full statue of an african-american to stand in the halls of congress, across the street, the supreme court will be hearing arguments from those challenging the constitutionality, the voting rights act reauthorization named in part for rosa parks. an act both republicans and democrats came together after extensive days and days and days and weeks and weeks of...
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rosa parks tells us there's always something we can do. she tells us that we all have responsibilities to ourselves and to one another. she reminds us that this is how change happens. not mainly to the experts at the famous and powerful, but through the countless acts, often anonymous courage and kindness and fellow feeling and responsibility to continually come disturbingly expand our conception of justice. our conception of what is possible. >> the problem with banning any book is that once you ban one we don't know where it will stop and abreu takes us back to totalitarian state. blessed me ultima has been banned many times especially western state inc. simply because of the sometimes the parent doesn't understand the novel. they haven't read it. there's been cases where teachers, school boards and parents asked to ban the novel and it turns out they just haven't read it a word or phrase search your repair. but i've got to say in every instance for censorship of the novel has happened, every instance i know so parents and family say thi
rosa parks tells us there's always something we can do. she tells us that we all have responsibilities to ourselves and to one another. she reminds us that this is how change happens. not mainly to the experts at the famous and powerful, but through the countless acts, often anonymous courage and kindness and fellow feeling and responsibility to continually come disturbingly expand our conception of justice. our conception of what is possible. >> the problem with banning any book is that...
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separate but equal is the language that tries to push rosa parks to the back of the bus. separate but equal is the motive that determines that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain to meet at the same table, or use the same toilet. separate but equal is the words that justifies spending -- sending children to different schools that would bail them ann them to a life of poverty. is an excerpt from the segregationist and the racist. it is this same statement, the same ideas, and the same delusion that we borrowed in this country to say that women could vote, but only if they were married and only when they were over 30. it is the same meditate that gave wait for my dad being a citizen when he arrived here in 1956 but refused by landlords and proclaimed no rights, no irish, though -- entrance to we were, who our friends could be and what our lives to become. this is not separate but equal. it is separate and discriminated , separate and repressed, separate and browbeaten, separate and subjugated. separate is not equal. so let's be rid o
separate but equal is the language that tries to push rosa parks to the back of the bus. separate but equal is the motive that determines that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain to meet at the same table, or use the same toilet. separate but equal is the words that justifies spending -- sending children to different schools that would bail them ann them to a life of poverty. is an excerpt from the segregationist and the racist. it is this same...
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and rosa parks were my heros, but the kind of stayed around. they didn't run off to china. and i think that if edward snowden had the case to make, i don't think that he helped his case by his behavior once this came out. >> there was a really interesting story but i could not figure it out. so whether snowden is so whistle-blower or a coward or a hero or a villain what he has done among other things is to enable public debate that we all get to decide how much power we blind to the government to have. >> i would just add this. this is all taking place at a time when we are undergoing a cultural change in this country brought on by the communications revolution and the capabilities we now have with the coming of the social media. people of the younger generation now put on facebook things that people my age would not have discussed it and mix company. people have a different idea of what privacy is now. and somehow that factors into all of this. we see this growing feeling how this affects the and regeneration they don't believe much of anything that the government or anybo
and rosa parks were my heros, but the kind of stayed around. they didn't run off to china. and i think that if edward snowden had the case to make, i don't think that he helped his case by his behavior once this came out. >> there was a really interesting story but i could not figure it out. so whether snowden is so whistle-blower or a coward or a hero or a villain what he has done among other things is to enable public debate that we all get to decide how much power we blind to the...
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the first thing -- sister mary del la rosa. i've been blessed enormously because i've had a chance to go back and thank all teachers who were living and have a totally separate life with some of those who had terrorized me a little, but, also, the ones so sweet to me like my 7th grade teacher, but my 2 # -- 2nd grade teacher i never made contact, but sister mary said in 1975 when we arrived at st. benedicts, she said the question, she made the whole class, 40 little black kids in there, and those my age remember the little wood and cast iron desks that you lift up and things ideas, and you sat two by two, little tiny desk, and she made us stand and repeat in unison, why did god make you? to know, love, and serve him in this life and to be happy with him in the next. through all the philosophies, the existentialists, neechi, you come back in life to what system mary said, why are you here? what the nones also taught, they made us believe that we were inherently equal, and that was a mainstay. it's something you see me repeat ove
the first thing -- sister mary del la rosa. i've been blessed enormously because i've had a chance to go back and thank all teachers who were living and have a totally separate life with some of those who had terrorized me a little, but, also, the ones so sweet to me like my 7th grade teacher, but my 2 # -- 2nd grade teacher i never made contact, but sister mary said in 1975 when we arrived at st. benedicts, she said the question, she made the whole class, 40 little black kids in there, and...
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the program they added a tribute to the negro women and they invited and they chose to honor dianesh, rosa parks, gloria richardson whose husband had been murdered down the mississippi and he and each has been allocated each minute without knowing very hard for them to do when it thin beef on their top priorities in the area of equal rights and racial justice. and folks who know confronting these problems over the next 50 years as we move past the commemoration of the march on washington. i will introduce them as they will come out in the audience that i have introduced to them. tama is the council of the naacp, the youngest person person to be selected. prior to coming to the naacp, she was the principal in the firm here in d.c. for her practice on the medical malpractice litigation mediation and arbitration. prior year to that she served in the litigation practices for the monona small firms. she has recently been honored as the washington, d.c. super lawyer and was recognized as a top lawyer by the washingtonian in may of 2007 the women's bar association lawyer of the year. she's a form
the program they added a tribute to the negro women and they invited and they chose to honor dianesh, rosa parks, gloria richardson whose husband had been murdered down the mississippi and he and each has been allocated each minute without knowing very hard for them to do when it thin beef on their top priorities in the area of equal rights and racial justice. and folks who know confronting these problems over the next 50 years as we move past the commemoration of the march on washington. i...